Category: Emotional Abuse

October 24, 2018 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Welcome back and thanks for joining us. In this two part article we’ve been talking about a form of child abuse that often goes unacknowledged as abuse – the emotional kind which leaves no visible marks. However, the lack of scars doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a serious effect on a child, and in many…

October 19, 2018 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

As we’ve discussed many time in the past, parental alienation is a form of child abuse. And while it usually comes up as a subject in family law situations (because it often happens after a divorce) we believe that it’s a very appropriate subject to discuss here as well on our child abuse and neglect…

February 9, 2018 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Welcome back and thanks for joining us for the final installment in our four-part series on hostile aggressive parenting If you’re just joining us now, we recommend you take a few minutes to get caught up on exactly what this is, and why experts consider it to be a form of child abuse. If you’ve…

February 7, 2018 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Welcome back, and thanks for joining us for the third installment in this discussion on hostile aggressive parenting. We’ve talked about what exactly hostile aggressive parenting is, how it differs from parental alienation (but can lead to that!) and why it’s considered to be child abuse. Moving on we’re going to wrap up this series…

February 2, 2018 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. In the previous article we introduced the topic of hostile aggressive parenting, and talked about why it counts as a type of child abuse. Although awareness of Parental Alienation and Hostile Aggressive Parenting is increasing, the fact is that many people still don’t realize that they even…

January 31, 2018 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Hostile Aggressive parenting may not be the most well known term, but many parents are intimately familiar with it’s toxic results! So what does it mean, and why does it count as a form of child abuse? We’ve had many parents ask us about this in recent months, and we think it’s time to unpack…

August 11, 2017 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Welcome back and thanks for joining us against for this discussion on shaming, and whether or not it constitutes child abuse. In our previous article we discussed a Michigan case, based in Monroe, where one parent used public shaming as a method of discipline, which led the other parent to call CPS and refuse future…

August 9, 2017 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Parenting issues and how people choose to raise their kids are issues that blaze a trail through social media on a weekly basis. Usually this happened in the form of public backlash and parent-shaming for the way a particular issue was handled. A temper-tantrum in the grocery store; a socially inappropriate birthday party theme; a…

December 15, 2016 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

  Thanks for joining us again. We know this is a very difficult, and very controversial subject to discuss, and that people have very specific views about what they believe is right or wrong. We also know that often the most important subjects are the ones that are hardest to talk about. So we are…

December 7, 2016 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

  Conversion therapy, also sometimes known as “reparative therapy” refers to the attempts to cure or reverse the gender identity or sexual orientation of a minor. The practice is usually promoted as part of a religious or faith-based approach to dealing with homosexuality and gender identity issues. Conversion therapy is very controversial, in part because…